Boynton Canyon vortex setting
— — the canyon where the red stays after dark.
Not only on a wall.
“A box canyon cut into the red Schnebly Hill Sandstone west of Sedona, ringed by buff and ochre cliffs of the Coconino plateau. The Yavapai-Apache hold the canyon as ancestral land; later visitors named one of Sedona's four vortex sites here, at the saddle below Kachina Woman spire. The trail enters past the Enchantment Resort and runs about six miles round-trip to the canyon's closed end.
Boynton Canyon vortex setting, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Boynton Canyon cuts west into the red rock country of the Coconino National Forest, just outside the village of Sedona in Yavapai County, Arizona. The canyon floor sits at roughly 4,600 feet and rises to 5,200 at the headwall. The Boynton Canyon Trail covers about 6.1 miles round-trip with around 600 feet of gain. The Yavapai-Apache Nation regards the canyon as ancestral homeland; cliff dwellings and rock art remain in protected alcoves on the canyon walls. The Enchantment Resort sits inside the canyon's lower mouth.
The walls are Schnebly Hill Formation sandstone — a Permian dune deposit roughly 280 million years old — topped by the cream-buff Coconino Sandstone. Iron oxide cementing the lower beds gives Sedona's signature red; the upper beds weather paler in late light. Kachina Woman, the spire near the trail's start, is a free-standing Coconino column above the saddle named as one of Sedona's four vortex sites by Page Bryant in 1980. The cliffs hold cool air well into the morning.
The trailhead is at the end of Boynton Pass Road in Coconino National Forest; a Red Rock Pass is required for parking. The canyon is open year-round; June afternoons cross 95°F and the upper trail offers little shade past the meadow. Spring and late autumn carry the easier light. Drone use over the canyon is prohibited under Forest Service rule. The vortex spur trail to the saddle below Kachina Woman branches left about half a mile in and is signed.